The current situation is a joke. No small player can get above the radar at basically anything software or else they risk being sued out of business. Big player

The current situation is a joke. No small player can get above the radar at basically anything software or else they risk being sued out of business. Big players calculate their movements because they all have a big portfolio and they reach agreements. Most people cannot resort to this. Hopefully a clusterfuck between two industry giants will cause a fundamental change in the rules of the game. I wish all the devices you mentioned would be outlawed overnight to force a decided reaction. I'm willing to go full OSS and open formats, I'm mostly there anyway. Remember static GIFs? Here's hoping they do enforce all these patents to the fullest.